Places! Aug. 28-Sept. 3, 2014

Here are some of the performing arts events opening on local stages this week. Plus, the list of last-chance shows.

Every week in Places!, TheaterJones rounds up the weekend and coming week for theater, music, opera, dance and comedy performances that are opening/happening on North Texas stages.

This week: Since it's Labor Day weekend there isn't much opening, but there is a MAJOR arts happening: the inaugural Dallas DanceFest. Next week there are some tours opening at Dallas Summer Musicals and the AT&T Performing Arts Center that you'll want to check out.

Click on the slideshow icon in the floating menu at bottom left of your screen, and you'll see photos from some of these productions and events.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28 THROUGH WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

THE WEEKLY TOP FIVE

Photo: Brittany Nicole

Rhythmic Souls will perform at the Dallas DanceFest

1. The inaugural Dallas DanceFest happens Aug. 29-31 at City Performance Hall in the Dallas Arts District. There are showcases on Friday and Saturday night, and on Sunday afternoon, it's the Dance Council Honors plus more performances.

2. AT&T Performing Arts Center's Off-Broadway on Flora series begins with the tour of Buyer and Cellar, starring Plano native Michael Urie at Dallas City Performance Hall, Sept. 3-6. Urie, who is best known as Marc in the TV show Ugly Betty, originated this role off-Broadway in this solo show by Jonathan Tolins (Twilight of the Golds) about a man who gets a job cleaning out Barbra Streisand's basement.

3. The national tour of the Gershwin revue Nice Work If You Can Get begins in Dallas, via Dallas Summer Musicals at the Music Hall at Fair Park,Sept. 2-14; and then to Bass Hall Sept. 16-21. With a book by Joe DiPietro (Memphis; I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change), it uses songs by George and Ira Gershwin (including “But Not For Me,” “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off,” “I’ve Got a Crush on You” and “Someone to Watch Over Me”) to tell a new story about a group of outrageous characters that gather in New York to celebrate the wedding of wealthy playboy Jimmy Winter. Of course things don't go as planned when bootlegger Billie Bendix, a bubbly and feisty bootlegger, arrives and melts his heart.

» Keep watching TheaterJones for an interview with playwright and book writer Joe DiPietro

4. African American Repertory Theater opens its seventh season with the area premiere of Gee's Bend by Elizabeth Gregory Wilder. The award-winning play explores the turbulent history of African-Americans in the Deep South via the Pettway women, quilters from the isolated community of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, now famous for the beautiful quilts created by the women that grew up there. Previews Aug. 28, opens Aug. 29 and runs through Sept. 14 at the K.D. Studio Theatre in Dallas. Emily Scott Banks directs.

Amphibian Stage Productions shows the National Theatre Live NT Live screening of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, at 2 and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3

ROAD TRIP!New to Places! Each week we'll highlight at least one performance in a city outside of Dallas-Fort Worth that's still reasonably driveable. Because this is Texas, that means five hours or less, one way. (So, look for recommendations in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, etc.)

If you loved the Dallas One-Minute Play Festival at Kitchen Dog Theater a few weeks ago—and if you saw it, there's no way you didn't love it—and wanna see how it works in another city, then drive to Austin where the 1MPF's Dominic D'Andrea is at it again. The first Austin One-Minute Play Festival, Aug. 28-30, is produced in collaboration with Scriptworks and Salvage Vanguard Theatre.

The So You Think You Can Dance tour comes to Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie on Oct. 3

The second annual Fall for the Arts happens all day Oct. 4 in Klyde Warren Park. TheaterJones is one of the sponsors, come by and say hi at our booth!

» For complete listings of what's happening on North Texas stages, click on the calendar icon at the top right of the page. Once there, you can click the red "Search the Calendar" box, and search for listings by dates, performance type, the presenting company, titles or descriptions.

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